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Originally Posted by TNCubsFan
To expand on this. With no guaranteed money next year it allows them some options. As a human player we are thinking, "Who else is a FA SS next year?" "Do the Dbacks have MI help in AAA who can take over next year?" "Where else can this money be used?" While the AI thinks that "I just improved my lineup!!!"
If the AI planned ahead over two or three years then Marcus and Co. would have one of the best AI in commercial games. As it is, the AI is a three year old who wants ice cream. Dont think it past that point.
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Just to play devil's advocate.... Most of the other offers from the Lindor shopping were either lowballs or salary dumps. No harm in trying, right? Then there were a couple of reasonable ones where I could really see the logic.
An example was the Red Sox who are just 1 GB of the Yankees and solidly in the 1st WC spot. They offered Bogaerts straight up. He is signed through the next season at $20M. If the Pavin Smith offer had not been there I would have accepted the Bogaerts deal. Boston has a ton of money and the Lindor upgrade made sense for them and also for me.
Pavin Smith is not a household name and I guess it might have been easy enough to just gloss over him. But for me he's a great pickup for a few months of Lindor and also my scout rates him higher than OSA.
So just to give due credit to the AI, out of 29 teams that responded this was the only one that jumped off the page, and only because it's from a non playoff contender and financially stretched team like the DBacks.